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musingly

ADVERB
  1. in a reflective manner
    `It's funny about that bar,' he said musingly

How To Use musingly In A Sentence

  • The language is amusingly flowery and the overall tone one of purposeful pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
  • "It must be my irresistible charm, " I muttered to myself amusingly.
  • Few films have so fluently, so poignantly and amusingly, described contemporary Britons' attempts to overcome the shock of otherness.
  • ‘Interesting,’ he said musingly, almost to himself.
  • Amusingly, as it stirred the hot air in the room, it caused the ceiling fan to rotate slowly.
  • `It's funny about that bar,' he said musingly
  • See how we trifle! but one can't pass one's youth too amusingly for one must grow old, and that in England; two most serious circumstances, either of which makes people gray in the twinkling of a bedstaff; for know you there is not a country upon earth where there are so many old fools and so few young ones. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
  • amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things
  • Rather unamusingly referred to in the index as "The Fool. FallNet - a pack of gnomes, trolls and gargoyles
  • The former porter mentioned each successive kind of eatable, as if he were musingly summing up his good actions. The Chimes
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